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en Horse Power http://robbreport.com/art-collectibles/horse-power
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Sheila Gibson Stoodley</li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><em>Indelible equestrian forms harness their creator’s strength. </em></strong></p>
<p>At his darkest hour, an English sculptor received a powerful vote of confidence. In 2006, when Nic Fiddian-Green was diagnosed with leukemia, things became so grim that his wife, Henrietta, phoned Britain’s Lady Carole Bamford and suggested she find someone else to create the 27-foot-tall horse head sculpture she had commissioned. Bamford declined, saying she would wait for Nic to recover. He cannot recall if his wife told him this in the hospital, but he does remember that sculpting was good medicine. “My heart rate would go up,” he says of the time he spent sitting in bed fashioning models from plaster. “That’s what they [his doctors] wanted.”</p>
<p>Lady Bamford’s steadfastness was rewarded—her horse head, finished in 2009, now graces her Gloucestershire estate—and Fiddian-Green, now cancer-free, is constructing a studio near Castello di Reschio (see “<a href="/home-and-design/working-rooms" target="_blank">Working the Rooms</a>”). He forged a connection with the Umbrian estate four years ago when its owner, Count Antonio Bolza, saw the artist installing his equestrian sculptures (from $14,000 to more than $3 million) at London’s Sladmore Contemporary gallery. Bolza extended an invitation to visit Reschio, and watching Fiddian-Green work on-site prompted the count to launch <a href="mailto:Art@Reschio">Art@Reschio</a>, a program of temporary exhibitions at the estate. “It’s one of the most inspiring things I’ve ever done,” Fiddian-Green says of sculpting there. “If I could do it every day, I would.” <br /><em>Sladmore Contemporary, +44.20.7499.0365, <a href="http://www.sladmorecontemporary.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >www.sladmorecontemporary.com</a></em></p>
</div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"...Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:32:34 +0000Sheila Gibson Stoodley1029301 at http://robbreport.comOn a Pedestalhttp://robbreport.com/home-and-design/pedestal
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<a href="/content/amanda-millin">Amanda Millin</a>
</li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The London-based artist <a href="http://www.antonygormley.com/" target="_blank">Antony Gormley</a>—known for his <em>Angel of the North</em> sculpture in Gateshead, England—has made a unique foray into architectural design. His newest piece, a giant crouching man made of welded stainless steel, was commissioned by Mayfair’s newest luxury hotel, the Beaumont, which is scheduled to open in September. The figure sits on the hotel’s southwest corner, adding unexpected contemporary flair to the 88-year-old neo-Georgian exterior. More surprising is the 323-square-foot suite, simply called Room, housed inside the Lego-like structure. The entrance to the minimalistic space unconventionally opens onto a marble bathroom that leads to a sparse bedroom and sitting area with fumed German oak, original Gormley drawings, and 33-foot ceilings. Intending to create a relaxing yet psychologically stimulating reprieve from the modern world, Gormley outfitted the suite with only a small rectangular window at the base of the statue, which is covered at night with heavy wooden shutters that deliver enveloping darkness and privacy. Soft lighting throughout includes barely discernible illumination in the corners of the vast ceiling. Starting at $4,254 a night, the Beaumont’s Room might serve as a complementary experience for the art-minded guest attending the city’s <a href="http://www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/" target="_blank">London Festival of Architecture</a>, which takes place every June, or the nearby <a href="http://friezelondon.com/" target="_blank">Frieze art fair</a>, which takes place annually in October. In addition to Room, the Beaumont will offer 73 guest rooms and 22 suites (starting at about $673 per night) and amenities that include a gymnasium, a private dining room, and a spa with a hammam. (<a href="http://www.thebeaumont.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >w...Thu, 19 Jun 2014 07:00:00 +0000Amanda Millin860351 at http://robbreport.com21 Ultimate Gifts 2013: Standing Aparthttp://robbreport.com/home-and-design/21-ultimate-gifts-2013-standing-apart
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Sheila Gibson Stoodley</li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>THE GIFT</strong><br />
A mosaic column built for Louis Comfort Tiffany’s showroom.</p>
<p><strong>$2 million</strong></p>
<p>It is tall, slim, and stunning, and it weighs 400 pounds—at least 400 pounds. Louis Comfort Tiffany’s artisans made this Byzantine-style, blue-and-gold mosaic column, along with five others, in the 1890s or 1900s for display in the Tiffany Studios showroom in Manhattan. The columns shared space with the studio’s famous windows and lamps. Alastair Duncan, a Tiffany expert, first encountered this column in the early 1990s, in a</p>
<p>storage facility in Queens. He cleaned it for the person who owned it at the time and readied it for sale. “I had a lot of experience trying to move the damn thing around,” he says. “It takes a small earthmover. It’s very heavy. Not solid; it has a hollow core. But it’s made of concrete.”</p>
<p>The columns may not have been the first thing customers saw when entering the showroom on Madison Avenue, but with their peacock hues and 11-foot height, the pillars were impossible to miss. After the showroom closed in 1937, following the death of Louis Comfort Tiffany four years earlier, all six columns were stored in outbuildings at Laurelton Hall, the Tiffany family’s 600-acre estate on Long Island. They were discovered—unharmed—after a fire ravaged the estate’s main house in 1957, and were sold. One now stands in the Charles Engelhard Court of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, among sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and windows by Frank Lloyd Wright; another is displayed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and two are at the Baltimore Museum of Art. This gift’s column is one of the two that remain in private hands; it belongs to the auctioneer Allen Michaan, who purchased it with the rest of the holdings of a Japanese Tiffany museum that recently closed. Duncan helped arrange the sale to Michaan.</p>
<p>The columns were not entirely fanciful, according to Duncan. They were of a piece with Tiffany’s ecclesiastical work, demonstrating what his artisans could do for the interiors of churches and chapels. The columns’ production involved glassmakers, glass cutte...Mon, 02 Dec 2013 01:24:16 +0000Sheila Gibson Stoodley260526 at http://robbreport.comImportant Contemporary Sculpture on Offer at Bonhams New York http://robbreport.com/LuxuryNewswire/art-collectibles/important-contemporary-sculpture-offer-bonhams-new-york
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</figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Bonhams Contemporary Art auction on November 12 will feature quintessential sculptural works from innovators such as Alexander Calder (1898-1976) and Ruth Asawa (1926-2013), as well as exceptional examples from seminal artists like Keith Haring (1958-1990) and contemporary favorite Thomas Houseago (b. 1972).</p>
<p>Asawa's 1952 work, <em>Untitled</em> (<em>S.446, Hanging, Seven-Lobed Single-Layer Continuous Form)</em>, is an excellent example of the crocheted wire sculptures she produced in the 1950s (est. $200,000-300,000). These ethereal pieces were in high demand throughout the decade, and were included in shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the São Paolo Art Biennial. This particular example was acquired from the artist directly, and has remained within the same San Francisco family ever since.</p>
<p>It was Josef Albers (1888-1976) who initially taught Asawa to work with commonplace materials like wire while the two studied together at Black Hills Mountain College between 1946 and 1949. Bonhams will offer a classic square Albers composition in the November 12 auction, <em>Study for Hommage to the Square "Fall Finale"</em> from 1963 (est. $200,000-300,000). The painting has been exhibited at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and will be included in the forthcoming <em>catalogue raisonné</em> being prepared by the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation.</p>
<p>Another highlight is Susan Rothenberg's (b.1945) <em>Untitled Drawing #45</em> from 1977, an acrylic and pencil drawing on paper depicting one of Rothenberg's iconic horses (est. $120,000-180,000).</p>
<p>The auction's top lot is Alexander Calder's 1960 sculpture <em>Maripose </em>(est. $1,200,000-1,600,000). Exemplifying the artist's striking sense of balance and momentum, this stunning large scale mobile has been in private American hands for nearly 40 years in Wisconsin-based collections.</p>
<p>Keith Haring's bright yellow aluminum <em>Julia </em>from 1987 is a vibrant sculptural expression of the artist's characteristic linear figures (est. $100,000-150,000). The sculpture was exhibited in Paris at Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont in the 1999 show, <em>Keith Haring, 12 Sculptures</em>.</p>
<p>Like Haring before him, Thomas Houseago is focused on reinterpreting the human form, giving fresh relevance to figurative sculpture as a whole by incorporating both the past and the present into his pieces. Bonhams will offer the artist's 2007 <em>Study, Face 5</em>, a wood and graphite work that exemplifies the artist's embrace of angular - even crude - forms (est. $70,000-90,000).</p>
<p>Another young and critically acclaimed artist represented in the auction is Enoc Perez (b. 1967), whose 2008 oil on canvas composition <em>Eusebio Hair Salon, Habana (Night)</em> is one of several Latin American highlights on offer (est. $120,000-180,000). The Puerto Rican-born artist's architecturally-based paintings...Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:00:58 +0000Anne Wilson199946 at http://robbreport.comIconic 1960 Calder Mobile on Offer at Bonhams New Yorkhttp://robbreport.com/LuxuryNewswire/art-collectibles/iconic-1960-calder-mobile-offer-bonhams-new-york
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</figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Bonhams will offer Alexander Calder's (1898-1976) 1960 sculpture <em>Maripose </em>in the November 12 Contemporary Art auction (est. $1,200,000-1,600,000). This stunning example of Calder's large scale mobiles has been in private American hands for nearly 40 years in Wisconsin-based collections.</p>
<p>A native of Pennsylvania, Calder was born into a family of sculptors. His first solo show was held in Paris in 1927 while he was still in his twenties; he would soon become one of America's most lauded and prolific artists. It was Marcel Duchamp who first dubbed Calder's kinetic wire sculptures “mobiles,” — these hanging, interactive pieces would come to define the artist's legacy. </p>
<p><em>Maripose </em>was originally offered at Perls Gallery in New York, which represented Calder from 1954 until the artist’s death. The mobile was acquired in 1976 by a prominent private collector from Milwaukee's Irving Galleries, and passed by descent to the present owner in 1988. The mobile was exhibited at the Milwaukee Art Museum in 1987, and is registered with the Calder Foundation.</p>
<p>“In <em>Maripose</em>, every element of Calder's genius is evident through the striking sense of balance and momentum the sculpture evokes,” said Jeremy Goldsmith, Bonhams Director of Contemporary Art in New York. “It's a pleasure to bring such an important work to the market after nearly four decades in private hands.”</p>
<p>Bonhams will offer several other notable works from the same esteemed Wisconsin collection in the November 5 auction of Impressionist and Modern art, including Max Pechstein's (1881-1955) 1908 <em>Jeune Filles</em> (est. $300,000-400,000). In private hands since 1968, <em>Jeune Filles </em>is a graceful and vibrant composition from the celebrated German Expressionist.</p>
<p>Bonhams will offer Alexander Calder's <em>Maripose</em> in the November 12 Contemporary Art auction in New York. The auction will preview at Bonhams November 9-12.</p>
<p>A fully illustrated catalog will be available at <a href="http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21021" rel="nofollow" >www.bonhams.com/auctions/21021</a></p>
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<span s...Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:35:21 +0000Anne Wilson181406 at http://robbreport.comWhat a Reliefhttp://robbreport.com/home-and-design/what-relief
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Samantha Brooks</li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>Eighteen months’</strong> growing time, from initial design to installation, brought this olive tree to its finished 40-foot height. The sculptural relief is the work of the London-based firm DKT Artworks, whose team carried out the commission for the owners of a home in the city’s Chelsea neighborhood (see "<a href="/home-and-design/london-time" target="_blank">London Time</a>"). The relief, which spans the home’s three-story stairwell, comprises many parts—the trunk alone contains 30—that, after being hand-carved off-site, were assembled to the wall like puzzle pieces and covered with a water-based paint.</p>
<p>The design took root when DKT Artworks founding partner Steve Keeling, whose specialty is sculpture, drew the balustrade as a counterpoint to the tree, created a computer-generated model of the plant’s pattern, and experimented with physical prototypes. From start to end, the project was indeed involved, but it was not the 30-plus-person firm’s largest project to date. "We were once commissioned to create 28 artworks, plus decorative finishes in a range of patterns, and worked with marble, paint, plaster, etched glass, and architectural gilding, all for a single project," says Keeling.</p>
<p>Since 1979, when he started the firm with the painter Niki Davies and the industrial designer Sean Trowbridge, DKT has cultivated a global clientele. In addition to appearing in London, the firm’s creations have sprouted in residences in the Caribbean and the Middle East and aboard megayachts that cruise the world.</p>
<p>DKT Artworks, +44.20.8682.8460, <a href="http://www.dkt.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ><em>www.dkt.co.uk</em></a></p>
</div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="http://robbreport.com/home-and-design/what...Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:23:57 +0000Samantha Brooks16436 at http://robbreport.comCity Style: Rio de Janeirohttp://robbreport.com/home-and-design/city-style-rio-de-janeiro
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<a href="/content/jackie-caradonio">Jackie Caradonio</a>
</li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The death of Rio de Janeiro native Oscar Niemeyer in December marked not only the conclusion of a 76-year career for Brazil’s most influential architect, but also the end of an era for the country. Credited with almost single-handedly defining Brazil’s modernism movement with his sweeping, futuristic buildings, Niemeyer was virtually the architect of a nation. While his most notable achievement may have been his role in creating the overtly modernist capital, Brasilia, his distinctive style continues to evolve and inspire most successfully in the architect’s hometown. Here in Rio, between towering emerald mountains and seductive beaches, the visionary architecture that shaped the city so many decades ago sets the stage for new generations of designers and all-around arbiters of style. [Jackie Caradonio]</p>
<p><strong>Zuka</strong><br />Designed by the architect Bel Lobo, this sleek, contemporary Brazilian restaurant, which just celebrated its 10th anniversary, typifies modernist design with its slatted teak facade and glass entryway. Details such as freijo wood paneling and a massive churrasco grill pay homage to its Rio roots. +55.21.3205.7154, <a href="http://www.zuka.com.br" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >www.zuka.com.br</a></p>
<p><strong>HOTEL SANTA TERESA &amp; TÉRÈZE</strong><br />Brazilian art and reclaimed jacaranda wood mingle with silk drapes and modern furniture at this colonial-era mansion turned hotel in the artistic quarter. The melding of styles continues at the hotel’s tree-house restaurant, Térèze, whose Asian-Mediterranean cuisine is served amid reclaimed midcentury tables and chairs and whitewashed walls. $600 to $2,220; +55.21.3380.0200, <a href="http://www.santa-teresa-hotel.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >www.santa-teresa-hotel.com</a></p>
<p><strong>INSTITUTO MOREIRA SALLES</strong><br />Designed by the Brazilian architect Olavo Redig de Campos and built in 1951, this cultural center is a landmark in Brazil’s modernist history, with its curving white walls, round marble columns, and gardens designed by longtime Niemeyer collaborator Roberto Burle Marx. Inside, a photography collection of more than 550,000 images includes works from some of the country’s greatest 20th-century photographers. +55.21.3284.7400, <a href="http://ims.uol.com.br" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >ims.uol.com.br </a></p>
<p><strong>Antonio Bernardo</strong><br />Streamlined shapes and innovative techniques lend an architectural element to Antonio Bernardo’s handmade jewelry, which is crafted at the artist’s private atelier and sold in his Ipanema store. Shown: Spiral cuff, $2,185; +55.21.2512.7204, <a href="http://www.antoniobernardo.com.br" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >www.antoniobernardo.com.br</a></p>
<p><strong>Hotel Fasano</strong><br />Philippe Starck designed this sleek, retro-meets-contemporary hotel on Ipanema Beach with numerous nods to Rio’s modernist heritage, from a sexy rooftop pool overlooking the Atlantic to designer furnishings from local greats. Current highlights at the hotel, which opened in 2007, include Sergio Rodrigues’s Poltrona chairs and a trove of midcentury pieces by Niemeyer himself. Nightly rates: $820 to $4,100; +55.21.3202.4000, <a...Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:31:06 +0000Jackie Caradonio16381 at http://robbreport.com